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Vintage musicals aging well
![NEW YORK -- "Finally my mother can see something I've done," said opera singer <a href="http://nathangunn.com">Nathan Gunn</a>, "that she actually likes."](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-06/39793383-09153721.jpg "NEW YORK -- "Finally my mother can see something I've done,\" said opera singer <a href=\"http://nathangunn.com\">Nathan Gunn</a>, \"that she actually likes.\"")
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterNEW YORK -- "Finally my mother can see something I've done," said opera singer Nathan Gunn, "that she actually likes." The 37-year-old baritone was speaking of tonight's concert version of the pioneering musical "Show Boat," the centerpiece of a season-...Tags: Theater, Champaign (Champaign, Illinois), Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Oscar Hammerstein, Irving Berlin
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Is America ready for a real black president?
South Florida Sun-SentinelSOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL OP-ED ONLINE Is America Ready for a Real Black President? By Norm Vance Are you ready for a peanut butter and hamburger sandwich? Not sure? Yet someone in Bluffton, Indiana insists it was a favorite of her father and herself....Tags: Michael Bloomberg, Michael Vick, Branch Rickey, Armed Forces, Barack Obama
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Curious bedfellows
Jonathan Kirsch Is The Author Of, Most Recently, "a History Of The End Of The World: How The Most Controversial Book In The Bible Changed The Course Of Western Civilization.""LONG years ago, we made a trust with destiny," declared Jawaharlal Nehru, the founding father of modern India, on the occasion of the formal surrender of power by the British imperial authorities. "And now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge....Tags: Dining and Drinking, Jawaharlal Nehru, England, Noel Coward, Pocahontas
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Hidden Black History
Downtown Los Angeles: Gayle was live at Biddy Mason Park, where her life is commemorated in a series of plaques on a wall in the park that bears her name. The park is built on what was previously a narrow parking lot and a web of raw alleys, the park,...Tags: Opera (genre), Anglicanism, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Slavery, Concerts
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Recruits Play Waiting Game
The Hartford CourantINDIANAPOLIS -- The good feelings in Storrs brought by the commitment from Marcus White, which closed UConn's recruiting for 2002, lasted less than a week. This week, it's on to 2003, which will be an important class for the Huskies' future. Point guard...Tags: Basketball, University of Connecticut, Tom Moore, Maryland Terrapins, Kevin Ollie
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Red Hot With a Blue Note
Times Staff WriterNikita Khrushchev's eloquent 1950s critique of jazz pretty much summed up the status of that "bourgeois" music in the Soviet Union: He remarked that listening to it gave him gas. The early Russian jazz scene is most memorably explained by the night in...Tags: BBC, Philosophy, Duke Ellington, Georgia, Arts and Culture
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Komunyakaa's Riff
Northeast MagazineOn Mother's Day, mother was away. For a 17-month-old boy, it is evidently an inconvenience to be the child of two poet-parents. On any given holiday, one of them can stray from Trenton's leafy capital neighborhood to give a reading in a place called New...Tags: James Merrill, Romare Bearden, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Weather, Radio
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The Philadelphia story
Special to The TimesThere's not much of a barrier between Philadelphians and their city's history and culture. They walk briskly past the Liberty Bell on their way to a food-cart lunch, skateboard recklessly down the 100 steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum and, if you ask...Tags: John Marshall, Jackie Robinson, Marianne Moore, Tourism and Leisure, Larry Fine
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THE SKIN GAME
My father was ahead of his time. He theorized that if enough people had racially mixed children, racism would eventually disappear. He did his part: He had six biracial children. I was his third little bridge builder. But what I learned most from my...Tags: Harry Belafonte, Cultural Development, Illinois, Bill Clinton, Newspaper and Magazine
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'Paul Robeson: A Biography' by Martin Bauml Duberman
The life of a black celebrity is perilous enough, but the black celebrity who becomes a spokesperson is asking for pure hell. Not only has the outspokenness of those regarded as radicals gotten them into trouble, but as Gary Giddins' recent book "Satchmo"...Tags: NBC (tv network), Career and Workplace, Civil Rights, Human Rights, Australia (movie)
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Intense, inspirational ... indispensable
Tribune staff reporterTommy Hawkins had a decision to make in the spring of 1955. He had finished an exceptional basketball career at Parker High School as Chicago's best player and several colleges were after him. His first visit was to Notre Dame, where he found the...Tags: Basketball, Howard University, Branch Rickey, Jackie Robinson, Franklin Pierce
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